Monthly Archive for September, 2013

Smith College’s annual student mathematics conference: September 21, 2013 featuring Trachette Jackson, University of Michigan Susan Loepp, Williams College plus numerous talks by undergraduates and graduate students, all at a level to be enjoyed by undergraduates. Everything is free, including lunch. A schedule with increasing detail is posted at http://www.math.smith.edu/~jhenle/wimin13/ You can […]

We want to draw your attention to a special opportunity for Wesleyan students interested in Math Education. Wesleyan’s Green Street Arts Center/PIMMS (Project to Increase Mastery of Math and Science) is co-sponsoring a two-day workshop on the new Common Core Standards for Math education. Six spots at the workshop have been specifically reserved for Wesleyan […]

Undergrad Math Club Meeting: Thursday, September 26 at noon in the Woodhead Lounge. From Platonic solids in a geometry to graphs of surfaces in Calc 3 to knots and Klein bottles in topology, being able to visualize the sometimes complicated geometric objects which appear throughout mathematics is key to understanding and working with them. […]